Edited by Alexander Verkhovsky This text is an excerpt from a larger report, published in Russian [1] , on the enforcement of anti-extremist legislation in Russia’s online sphere. This excerpt focuses on the enforcement of criminal law. We have discussed the characteristics of the enforcement of anti-extremist legislation, including some Internet-related cases, [2] so here we will limit our subject to the specifics of the anti-extremist criminal sanctions on the Internet.

October 30, 2012 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court satisfied the claim of the regional prosecutor's office to recognize the site www.shamilonlain.org as extremist. The court found that this site contained information encouraging violent acts against non-Muslims, in particular Jews and Christian. The texts published on the site formed a negative attitude towards professing Islam justified terrorist acts.

October 23, 2012 in Blagoveshchensk, in the church of mts. faith, Nadezhda, Lyubov and their mother Sophia caught fire. According to the expertise of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, arson was the cause of the fire. There were no injuries: firefighters took the watchman out of the building and brought out several icons. The temple was opened recently in the building of the former club railroad workers.

October 31, 2012 it became known about the development of criminal cases against the creators of the opposition website Ufa Gubernskaya. They are sentenced to various terms of probation. Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court The Republic of Bashkortostan left the complaints of bloggers unsatisfied, and the verdict entered into force.

In October 2012 in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny of the Republic Tatarstan, the investigation of the criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). 18-year-old Marcel will soon be in the dock Shakirov, who is accused of publishing an “extremist call" on his page on the social network "VKontakte", in the "Notes" section. It is reported that the call was directed against people from the Caucasus and the Middle Asia.

On October 31, 2012, the Traktorozavodsky District Court of the city of Volgograd opened a criminal case against the head organizing committee "Russian March", the head of the organization "Union Russian people of Volgograd and the Volga” D. Bokov. His actions are qualified under part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or hostility committed in public). The next hearing will take place on 6 December 2012.

On October 31, 2012, the Federation Council of the Russian Federation approved the bill "On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and Article 151 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation". In addition, the Federation Council decided to send an appeal to The Supreme Court with a request to consider the issue of law enforcement practice provisions of the approved document.

On October 31, 2012, it became known that in relation to the 19-year-old a student of one of the Rostov universities, a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of religious hatred) and Part 1 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (calls to terrorist activities).

October 31, 2012, speaking at the Orthodox Media Festival "Faith and Word", the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky said that cancer in which kept the relics of Alexander Nevsky, now in the Hermitage, will be transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church. “There is a solution, ” he said, “ to make a copy, and a copy leave it in the Hermitage, and transfer the original to where it should be .

On October 31, 2012, the Federal List of Extremist Materials was again updated , in paragraphs 1473-1474 were added to it The list was supplemented by the website of the Independent Information and Analytical Publication Resistance website Vilayat Dagestan and Boris Stomakhin's (among other things, on The site published issues of his newspaper " Radical Politics ").